authorize

English

Alternative forms

• authorise (British)
• authourize (rare)

Etymology

From Middle English auctorisen, from Old French auctorisier, from Medieval Latin auctorizare, from Latin auctor. See author about the orthography with <h>. Doublet of octroy.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔθəɹaɪz/, /ˈɑθəɹaɪz/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɒθəɹaɪz/, /ˈɑθəɹaɪz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːθəɹaɪz/
• Rhymes: -aɪz

Verb

authorize (third-person singular simple present authorizes, present participle authorizing, simple past and past participle authorized)

1. (transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.

   Synonym: license

   Antonym: deauthorize

   The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.

   The judge authorized the wiretapping.

Derived terms

• authorization, authorisation
• unauthorized, unauthorised

Translations

to grant power or permission

• Albanian: autorizoj (sq), lejoj (sq)
• Belarusian: упаўнава́жваць impf (upaŭnavážvacʹ), упаўнава́жыць pf (upaŭnavážycʹ)
• Bulgarian: упълномощавам (bg) (upǎlnomoštavam), разрешавам (bg) (razrešavam), одобрявам (bg) (odobrjavam)
• Catalan: autoritzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 授權／授权 (zh) (shòuquán)

• Danish: bemyndige, befuldmægtige
• Dutch: machtigen (nl)
• Estonian: volitama, lubama
• Finnish: valtuuttaa (fi), antaa lupa
• French: autoriser (fr)
• Galician: autorizar (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: autorisieren (de), berechtigen (de), befugen (de), ermächtigen (de), bevollmächtigen (de)
• Hebrew: הסמיך‎ (hismíkh)
• Hungarian: felhatalmaz (hu), feljogosít (hu), meghatalmaz (hu)
• Interlingua: autorisar
• Italian: autorizzare (it)
• Japanese: 許可する (ja) (きょかする, kyoka suru)
• Korean: 허가하다 (ko) (heogahada)
• Maori: whakamana
• Norwegian: bemyndige, gi fullmakt
• Occitan: autorizar (oc)
• Portuguese: autorizar (pt), deixar (pt)
• Russian: уполномо́чивать (ru) impf (upolnomóčivatʹ), уполномо́чить (ru) pf (upolnomóčitʹ), авторизо́вывать (ru) impf (avtorizóvyvatʹ), авторизова́ть (ru) pf (avtorizovátʹ), одобря́ть (ru) impf (odobrjátʹ), одо́брить (ru) pf (odóbritʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: autorizírati (sh), ovlástiti (sh)

• Slovene: pooblastiti pf, pooblaščati impf
• Spanish: autorizar (es)
• Swedish: auktorisera (sv), bemyndiga, befullmäktiga (sv)
• Ukrainian: уповнова́жувати impf (upovnovážuvaty), уповнова́жити pf (upovnovážyty)
• Yiddish: אויטאָריזירן‎ (oytorizirn)

to permit

• Finnish: antaa lupa, myöntää lupa, sallia (fi)
• French: autoriser (fr)
• German: eine Erlaubnis erteilen für, eine Befugnis erteilen für
• Hungarian: engedélyez (hu)
• Italian: autorizzare (it)
• Maori: whakamana

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: machtigen (nl), vergunnen (nl), authoriseren
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} rajtigi